United States v. Lev

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Defendant Arthur B. Mandel, one of eight defendants named in a thirty-one count indictment, moves pursuant to Rule 14, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.1 *for an order severing all of the counts in which he is named.2

In essence, this indictment alleges a plan pursuant to which defendants Guarna and Battaglia, two importers, on numerous occasions bribed the six defendant United States Customs Inspectors, to “pass” or permit the illegal importation of quantities of haberdashery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 213 and 545.

Of the 26 counts…